Ghostbusters Reviews
Christian Science Monitor
In both the funny and the (mildly) scary moments, the cast does itself proud.
MediaMikes
"Ghostbusters" is a fun romp with a couple of comedy's greatest stars at the top of their game.
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| Original Score: 5/5
Digital Spy
As funny, spooky and marvellous as ever.
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| Original Score: 5/5
This is London
It provoked huge box-office success in 1984 and is still director Ivan Reitman's defining movie.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
The leads' chemistry is almost, well, spooky, Dan Aykroyd's nerdy enthusiasm rubbing deliciously against a persona-perfecting turn from Bill Murray - and there's even the odd surprise.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Radio Times
The often dazzling, special effects-driven slapstick tends to overshadow the fact that there are some slyer, more sophisticated laughs on offer in this blockbusting family comedy.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Common Sense Media
Paranormal fun for tweens and up; some scares.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Antagony & Ecstasy
A comedy first, a horror film second... but a successful enough hybrid of those things that it would be wrong to try to limit it generically.
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| Original Score: 8/10
Slant Magazine
The movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Whoever thought of having evil's final manifestation take the form of a 100-ft. marshmallow deserves the rational mind's eternal gratitude.
Film4
Stuffed with wisecracking, punning and essential deadpanning care of the film's most notable star performer Murray (who has such delivery down as a fine art), the film also packs in a half-decent narrative.
Screen It!
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| Original Score: 8/10
TV Guide's Movie Guide
With his deadpan delivery and snide quips, Murray more than holds his own amid the myriad state-of-the-art special effects.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Essentially a $30 million version of Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy but not at all a bad time, thanks mainly to Bill Murray's incredibly dry line readings and director Ivan Reitman's maintenance of a moderately coherent tone and plotline.
Time Out
Top CriticThe story of a trio of incompetent 'experts' in the paranormal (Murray, Aykroyd and Ramis), who set up as ghostbusters after they are canned from their college sinecures, is less cynical a construction than it sounds.
DVD Clinic
The perfect marriage of big-budget sci-fi spectacle and character-based comedy schtick.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Groucho Reviews
Dan Aykroyd's inventive comedy concept for Ghostbusters attracted an all-star comedy team to bust out an classic of mainstream '80s cinema.
| Original Score: 3.5/4
